5th International Workshop on "Thin films applied to Superconducting RF and new ideas for pushing the limits of RF Superconductivity"

Name: 5th International Workshop on "Thin films applied to Superconducting RF and new ideas for pushing the limits of RF Superconductivity"
Start: 2012-07-18T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2012-07-20T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Jefferson Lab

Jul 18, 2012, 8:00 AM → Jul 20, 2012, 4:00 PM US/Eastern

F113 (Jefferson Lab)

F113

Jefferson Lab

Anne-Marie Valente-feliciano (JLAB), Larry Phillips (JLAB)

Wed, July 18
- 8:30 AM
  
  Registration and Continental Breakfast
  
  Nametags, paperwork, and visitor WPA2 key
- Workshop Opening
  
  Convener: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Speaker: Andrew Hutton (JLab)
  - 2
    
    Workshop Logistics
    
    Speaker: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    Landscape for SRF Thin Films
    
    Speaker: Larry Phillips (JLab)
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    Accelerator Driven Systems and SRF Thin Films
    
    Speaker: Roland Johnson (Muons Inc.)
    
    Slides
- Session We1: Energetic Condensation
  
  Convener: André Anders (LBL)
  - 5
    
    Review on Energetic Deposition
    
    Speaker: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
    
    Slides
- 11:00 AM
  
  Break
- Session We2: Nb films via Energetic condensation
  
  Convener: Mahadevan Krishnan (AASC Inc.)
  - 6
    
    Niobium coatings for SRF cavities produced by high power impulse magnetron sputtering
    
    Speaker: Rueben Mendelsberg (ANL/LBL)
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Strong localization of ionization in high power impulse magnetron sputtering: An enabling route to niobium plasma coatings of SRF cavities
    
    Speaker: André Anders (LBNL)
    
    Slides
- 12:30 PM
  
  Lunch Break
  
  Quark Cafe
- Session We3: Nb Films via Energetic Condensation
  
  Convener: Larry Phillips (JLAB)
  - 8
    
    Nb films produced by Energetic Condensation via ECR
    
    Speaker: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
    Understanding of growth mechanism of high RRR Nb films on MgO substrate
    
    Speaker: Zuhawn Sung (FSU)
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
    Superconducting Nb thin film coatings to decrease impedance of unshielded accelerator bellows
    
    Speaker: James Colt (AASC Inc.)
    
    Slides
- Open Discussion on Energetic condensation & Nb Films
- 3:30 PM
  
  Break
- Session We4: Materials other than Nb and Multilayers - A15 & MgB2
  - 11
    
    MgB2 Thin Films for SRF Cavities
    
    Speaker: Xi Xiaoxing (Temple University)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    MgB2 Thin Films for SRF and Microwave Electronic Applications
    
    Speaker: Daniel Oates (MIT Lincoln Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 13
    
    Thickness dependence of superconducting properties in MgB2 thin films
    
    Speaker: Douglas Beringer (College William & Mary)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    Composite thin film superconductors for SRF applications grown using energetic condensation
    
    Speaker: Mahadevan Krishnan
    
    Slides
- 6:00 PM
  
  Workshop Dinner
  
  Departure for the Freight Shed at 6:00 pm
Thu, July 19
- 8:00 AM
  
  Continental breakfast
- Session Th1: Materials other than Nb and Multilayers
  
  Convener: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
  - 15
    
    Niobium Nitride Thin Films for Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities
    
    Speaker: William Roach (College William & Mary)
    
    Slides
  - 16
    
    HIGH TEMPERATURE METATHESIS FOR THE PREPARATION OF Nb3GaAl SUPERCONDUCTORS
    
    Speaker: Enzo Palmieri (INFN-LNL, Italy)
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Improvement of multilayer film growth for accelerator cavity by ECR deposition
    
    Speaker: Jiao Fei (Peking University, China)
    
    Slides
- Open Discussion on Materials other than Niobium and Multilayers
- 10:30 AM
  
  Break
- Session Th2: RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
  
  Convener: Xi Xiaoxing (Temple University)
  - 18
    
    Crystal quality measurement on Niobium films and bulk materials
    
    Speaker: Xin Zhao (JLab)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Point Contact Tunneling as a Surface Superconductivity Probe of bulk Nb and (NbxTi1-x )N Thin Films
    
    Speaker: Chaoyue Cao (IIT)
    
    Slides
  - 20
    
    Studies of magnetic flux distribution in Nb samples by Bitter decoration technique
    
    Speaker: Fedor Barkov (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    Comparison of Mesoscopic Nonlinear Electrodynamic Response of Bulk Nb and High Quality MgB2 Films
    
    Speaker: Tamin Tai (University of Maryland)
    
    Slides
- 1:00 PM
  
  Lunch Break
- Session Th3: RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
  
  Convener: Charles Reece (JLab)
  - 22
    
    Sample testing with the Quadrupole Resonator - A way to obtain RF results over a wide parameter range
    
    Speaker: Sarah Aull (CERN, Switzerland)
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    TE cavity develpements at Cornell University
    
    Speaker: Yi Xie (Cornell University)
    
    Slides
  - 24
    
    Evaluation of SRF thin film properties using a microstrip disk resonator
    
    Speaker: Daniel Bowring (LBNL)
    
    Slides
- 3:30 PM
  
  Break
- Session Th4: RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
  
  Convener: Prof. Steven Anlage (University of Maryland)
  - 25
    
    Near surface superconductivity of niobium cavity cutouts probed by low energy muon spin rotation
    
    Speaker: Anna Grassellino (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 26
    
    Inner workings of the 120C baking effect studied by positron annihilation
    
    Speaker: Alexander Romanenko (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 27
    
    RF Nonlinearity in Thin-Film and Bulk Superconductors: A Mechanism for Cavity Q-Drop
    
    Speaker: Behnood Ghamsari (University of Maryland)
    
    Slides
- Open Discussion on RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
Fri, July 20
- 8:30 AM
  
  Continental Breakfast
- Session Fr1: Innovative processing for SRF surfaces
  - 28
    
    Development of Plasma Processing Technologies for SRF Cavities
    
    Speaker: Janardan Upadhyay (Old Dominion University)
    
    Slides
  - 29
    
    Purification of 6GHz resonators at extremely high temperatures at atmospheric pressure
    
    Speaker: Enzo Palmieri (INFN-LNL, Italy)
    
    Slides
  - 30
    
    Fabrication and Testing of ILC Cavities Produced from Seamless Nb Tubes
    
    Speaker: Roy Crooks (Black Labs, LLC)
    
    Slides
- 10:30 AM
  
  Break
- Open Discussion on Innovative processing for SRF Surfaces
- Workshop summary
- 12:00 PM
  
  Lunch break
- JLab tour